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Three Decades Lost- New Report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

2020-01-17T13:29:22+00:00

This week the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new report about child and family poverty in our province. Read now » 2019 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Three Decades Lost It has been 30 years since an all-party resolution was passed by the House of Commons to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. It is strikingly clear that we have failed, as 19 years past the deadline 40,710 children — about 1 in 4 — still live in poverty in our province. Nova Scotia has reduced child poverty less than 1% from 1989 [...]

Three Decades Lost- New Report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.2020-01-17T13:29:22+00:00

Media Advisory: Official Launch of the NSACCW

2019-06-02T18:20:30+00:00

MEDIA ADVISORY May 31st, 2019 A Nova Scotia Where No One Lives in Poverty- Official Launch of the Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well-Being   KJIPUKTUK (HALIFAX, NS) - Today 19 organizations  have come together to launch The Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well-Being. The Coalition actively resists and works wot remove, the attitudinal, social, environmental, economic and policy barriers that maintain systemic poverty.  What:  Press Conference to launch the Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well- Being Who:    Hosted by Sue Leblanc NDP MLA for Dartmouth North Statements from: Alec Stratford – Executive Director/ Registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers. The NSCSW works [...]

Media Advisory: Official Launch of the NSACCW2019-06-02T18:20:30+00:00
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